After an exceptionally busy few days for the three-member crew onboard the International Space Station, Wednesday provided an opportunity to share some of the beauty of our home planet from their orbital perspective. Photograph of Earth’s middle east region 11:00 GMT 15 May 2013.

United States – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Aero-Spacelines 377SGT Super Guppy makes an extremely rare visit (maybe first time visit) to Hanscom Field delivering a heat shield that will be used in NASA’s next generation of spacecraft; the Orion

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Image above: For those in search of comet L4 PANSTARRS, look to the west after sunset in early and mid-March. This graphic shows the comet’s expected positions in the sky. Image credit: NASA. Discovered in June 2011, comet 2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) bears the name of the telescopic survey that discovered it — the less than mellifluous sounding “Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System” which sits atop the Haleakala volcano in Hawaii.